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Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician who helped convince the Bush administration to launch the 2003 invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein by providing false evidence of weapons of mass destruction, has died of a heart attack

I spend a fair amount of time talking to students and other young people about Congress and politics in general, and I’ve noticed something. It used to be that I’d regularly get asked how one runs for office. Nowadays, I rarely do.

In a press conference, 47-year-old Ryutaro Nonomura can be heard sobbing and yelling as he defends racking up about $30,000 in unaccounted for travel expenses, mostly on trips to a hot spring resort.

Two Members of Parliament in Canada have made a public and forceful call for the Chinese authorities to release a Falun Gong practitioner who has been on a hunger strike for over a month.